Selected  Proofs 


THE  FIRST  AND  SECOND  PORTFOLIOS 
OF  ILLUSTRATIONS 


FROM 


Scribner's  Monthly ^  St.  Nicholas 


The  CENTURY  CO.  NEW-YORK 


Copyright,  1881,  by  The  Century  Co. 


Press  of 
Francis  Hart  &  Co. 
New- York. 


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PUBLISHERS'  NOTE. 


Two  years  ago  the  publishers  of  this  portfolio  collected,  in  a  single  bound 
volume,  a  number  of  proofs  of  the  principal  cuts  which  had  appeared  in  ScRIB- 
ner  and  St.  Nicholas.  During  the  year  that  followed,  so  considerable  an 
amount  of  excellent  work  was  done  in  this  field,  that  a  second  portfolio  of  loose 
proofs  was  selected,  almost  entirely  from  the  engravings  of  the  year.  In  both 
instances,  only  a  small  edition  was  printed,  for  in  neither  was  there  any  expecta- 
tion of  a  commercial  demand  for  the  volume,  which  was  chiefly  intended  for  the 
press  and  for  art  amateurs  as  a  succinct  presentation  of  the  part  taken  by 
the  two  magazines  in  giving  new  life  to  wood-engraving  in  America.  More  than 
any  other  compilation  which  has  been  made  or  which  it  is  now  possible  to 
make,  these  two  portfolios  have  contained  a  resume  of  the  progress  of  American 
wood-engraving  as  exhibited  in  its  highest  and  most  characteristic  examples.  The 
response  from  the  public  and  the  press  to  the  pioneer  work  done  especially  by 
Scribner's  Monthly  (hereafter  to  be  known  as  The  Century  Magazine) 
in  extending  the  province  of  engraving  was  so  cordial  that  a  number  of  cuts 
were  included  in  the  first  and  second  portfolios  whose  chief  interest  was  as 
representative  of  technical  methods  long  popular  in  France  and  England,  and 
already  growing  in  favor  in  America.  In  preparing  the  present  volume,  the 
selection  has  been  made  from  the  previous  ones  with  direct  reference  to  the 
book-buyer,  the  significance  of  cuts  as  illustrating  the  capability  of  the  graver 
giving  way  to  the  supposed  popularity  of  the  subject.  The  possessor  may  thus 
be  sure  of  a  collection  which  will  directly  minister  to  the  interest  and  entertain- 
ment of  the  home  circle  at  the  same  time  that  it  is  in  some  sort  an  apology  for 
wood-engraving  as  a  popular  agency  in  the  diffusion  of  good  art. 


September,  1881. 


The  Century  Co. 

(Formerly  Scribner  &  Co.) 


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TABLE 


OF  CONTENTS. 


I.    THE   YOUNG  MARSYAS. 

Drawn  by  Elihu  Vedder  from  his  own  painting.    Engraved  by  T.  COLE. 

II.    THE   LOST  MIND. 

From  painting  by  Elihu  VeDDER.    Engraved  by  T.  COLE. 

III.  BIORN  THE  BOLD. 

Drawn  by  Mary  Hallock  Foote.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 

IV.  THE  SISTERS. 

From  painting  by  William  Page.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
V.    PORTRAIT  OF   MODJESKA  AS  "JULIET." 

From  photograph  by  Scholl.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
VI.    THE   LAST  SUPPER. 

From  painting  by  Leonardo  da  Vinci.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
VII.    HEAD  OF  CHRIST. 

From  painting  by  Leonardo  DA  VlNCI.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
VIII.    DEATH'S  DOOR. 

Reproduced  by  American  Photo- Engraving  Co.  from  illustration  in  Blair's  "Grave,"  drawn  by 
William  Blake,  and  engraved  by  Schiavonetti. 
IX.    PORTRAIT  OF  SAVONAROLA. 

From  painting  by  Fra  Bartolommeo.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
X.    PORTRAIT  OF  DUVENECK. 

From  painting  by  Wm.  M.  Chase.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
XL    PORTRAIT  OF  JOHN   GREENLEAF  WHITTIER. 

Drawn  by  Wyatt  Eaton.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
XII.    WHITTIER'S  BIRTHPLACE. 

Drawn  by  Homer  Martin.    Engraved  by  F.  S.  King. 

XIII.  "HOME,  SWEET  HOME." 

The  birthplace  of  John  Howard  Payne.     Drawn  by  F.   Hopkinson  Smith.     Engraved  by 
F.  S.  King. 

XIV.  PORTRAIT  OF  PETER  THE  GREAT. 

From  steel  engraving  by  J.   Houbraken,  of  the  painting  by  C.  De  Moore.    Engraved  by 
R.  A.  Muller. 

XV.    AUTUMN  AFTERNOON   IN  THE   BERKSHIRE  HILLS. 

From  painting  by  Abbott  H.  Thayer.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
XVI.    THE  SPHINX. 

From  photograph  from  Nature.    Engraved  by  E.  Bi  iokhout. 


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XVII.    READY   FOR  THE  RIDE. 

From  painting  by  Wsi.  M.  Chase,  in  possession  of  the  Union  League  Club.     Engraved  by 

T.  Cole. 

XVIII.    PORTRAIT  OF   EDOAR  ALLAN  POE. 

From  daguerreotype.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
XIX.    CAUGHT  BY  THE  SNOW. 

Drawn  by  Thomas  Moran.    Engraved  by  J.  A.  Bogert. 
XX.    THE  SOWER. 

After  photograph  from  painting  by  Jean-Francois  Millet.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
XXI.    THE  NEW-BORN  LAMB. 

From  painting  by  Jean-Franqois  Millet.    Engraved  by  the  Yves  &  Barret  process. 
XXII.    THE   BLACK  DOUGLASS. 

Drawn  by  Mary  Hallock  Foote.    Engraved  by  A.  V.  S.  Anthony. 

XXIII.  THE  COUNTESS  POTOCKA.  r         -rj~     .  f-g. 

After  original  pastel  in  the  Berlin  Museum.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole.        *><cW  '«M     «~    /  a|  2-  - 

XXIV.  GATHERING  SEA-WEED. 

From  painting  by  Geo.  Inness,  Jr.    Engraved  by  John  W.  Evans. 
XXV.    THE  OLD   MANSE  AT  CONCORD. 

The  home  of  Hawthorne  and  of  Emerson.    Drawn  by  Homer  Martin.    Engraved  by  Henry 
Marsh. 

XXVI.    MADONNA   OF  THE  LILY. 

From  painting  by  Leonardo  da  Vinci.    Engraved  by  R.  A.  Muller. 
XXVII.    JOSEPH   JEFFERSON  AS  "BOB  ACRES." 

Drawn  by  Robert  Blum.    Engraved  by  Photo-Electro  Co. 
XXVIII.    STATUE,  "CHARITY." 

From  photograph  of  original  by  Paul  Dubois.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 

XXIX.    PORTRAIT  OF   ABRAHAM  LINCOLN. 

Drawn  by  Wyatt  Eaton.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
XXX.    ETRUSCAN  FAN. 

Drawn  by  R.  RlORDAN.    Engraved  by  Henry  Marsh. 
XXXI.    THE   RETURN   FROM   THE  DEER-HUNT. 

From  painting  by  II.  Sandham.    Engraved  by  F.  S.  KING. 
XXXII.    LITTLE  SIGRID. 

Drawn  by  John  LaFarge.    Engraved  by  Henry  Marsh. 

XXXIII.  THE  TILE  CLUB  AT  EASTHAMPTON. 

From  sketch  by  E.  A.  Abbey.    Engraved  by  J.  P.  Davis. 

XXXIV.  a  SWEDISH   QUEEN- MOTHER  OF  THE  OLDEN  TIME. 

From  painting  by  Edelfelt.    Engraved  by  W.  B.  Closson. 
XXXV.    PORTRAIT  OF  WILLIAM   CULLEN  BRYANT. 

Drawn  by  Wyatt  Eaton.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
XXXVI.    FEEDING  THE  CALVES. 

From  drawing  by  Chialiva.    Engraved  by  N.  W.  Scott. 
XXXVII.    THE  PICTURE  IN  THE   FIRE-PLACE  BEDROOM. 

Drawn  by  Mary  Hallock  Foote.    Engraved  by  W.  J.  Linton. 
XXXVIII.    PORTRAIT  OF  WALT  WHITMAN. 

From  a  photograph.    Engraved  by  G.  Kruell. 
XXXIX.    PORTRAIT  OF  JAMES  A.  M.  WHISTLER. 

From  study  in  black,  by  Whistler.    Engraved  by  Fred.  Juengling. 

XL.    PORTRAIT  OF   WHISTLER'S  MOTHER.  jfo-  J/^^u^C>L  ^     A*  /  %*\  ^ 

From  painting  by  Jas.  A.  M.  Whistler.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
XLI.    THE  WHITE  LADY. 

From  a  study  in  white  by  Jas.  A.  M.  Whistler.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 


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XLII.    MORNINC;   AT  JESSE  CONKLING'S. 

Drawn  by  R.  Swain  GlFFORD.    Engraved  by  F.  S.  King. 

XLIII.    THE  HOLLIS  BUST  OF  MILTON. 

From  photograph.    Engraved  by  David  Nichols. 

XLIV.    A   RUSSIAN  NUN. 

From  photograph  by  Velten,  of  St.  Petersburg,  of  the  painting  by  Th.  Tchoumakoff.  Engraved 
by  T.  Cole. 

XLV.    THE   STONE  JUG. 

From  painting  by  A.  Van  Ostade.    Engraved  by  J.  H.  E.  Whitney. 
XLVI.    WALDEN  POND. 

Drawn  by  Homer  Martin.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
XLVII.    PORTRAIT   OF   OLIVER   WENDELL  HOLMES. 

Drawn  by  Wyatt  Eaton.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
XLVIII.    RISTORI   AS   MARIE  STUART. 

Drawn  by  Robert  Blum.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
XLIX.    THE   LAST  TOKEN. 

From  painting  by  Gabriel  Max.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
L.    THE    PIPING  SHEPHERD. 

From  water-color  by  Fortuny.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
LI.    THE  DAUPHIN. 

From  steel  engraving  of  a  painting  by  Greuse.    By  permission  of  Thomas  McLean,  7  Hay- 
market,  London.    Engraved  by  G.  Kruell. 
LII.    THE    PRINCES   IN   THE  TOWER. 

From  the  engraving  by  Samuel  Cousins  of  the  painting  by  John  Everett  Mili.ais.  By 
permission  of  The  Fine  Art  Society  of  London.    Engraved  by  G.  Kruell. 
LIII.    MISS  PENELOPE  BOOTHBY. 

From  painting  by  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds.    By  permission  of  Thomas  McLean,  7  Haymarket, 
London.    Engraved  by  J.  G.  Smithwick. 
LIV.    PORTRAIT  OF  GLADSTONE. 

From  photograph  by  Marion  &  Co.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
LV.    A   GIRL  OF  THE   MEXICAN  CAMP. 

Drawn  by  Mrs.  Mary  Hallock  Foote.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
LVI.    PORTRAIT  OF   SEYMOUR  HADEN. 

From  photograph.    Engraved  by  T.  Cole. 
EVIL    A   BY-ROAD   IN  TIPPERARY. 

From  etching  by  Seymour  Haden.    Engraved  by  Joseph  Speer. 
HEAD  OF   FAWN   OF   MULE-DEER.    (Tail-piece  to  Contents.) 
Drawn  and  Engraved  by  J.  Harrison  Mills. 


PROOF  IMPRESSIONS. 


PLATE  I. 


PLATE  II. 


PLATE  III. 


PLATE  IV. 


PLATE  V. 


PLATE  VI. 


PLATE  VII. 


PLATE  VIII. 


PLATE  IX. 


PLATE  X. 


PLATE  XI. 


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PLATE  XII. 


PLATE  XIII. 


PLATE  XIV. 


PLATE  XV. 


PLATE  XVI. 


PLATE  XVII. 


PLATE  XVIII. 


PLATE  XIX. 


PLATE  XX. 


PLATE  XXI. 


PLATE  XXII. 


PLATE  XXIV. 


PLATE  XXV. 


PLATE  XXVI. 


PLATE  XXVII. 


PLATE  XXIX. 


PLATE  XXX. 


PLATE  XXXI. 


PLATE  XXXII. 


PLATE  XXXI 


PLATE  XXXIV. 


PLATE  XXXV. 


PLATE  XXXVI. 


PLATE  XXXVII. 


PLATE  XXXVIII. 


PLATE  XXXIX. 


PLATE  XL. 


PLATE  XLI. 


PLATE  XLII. 


PLATE  XLIII. 


PLATE  XLIV. 


PLATE  XLV. 


PLATE  XLVI. 


PLATE  XLVII. 


PLATE  XLVIII. 


PLATE  XLIX. 


PLATE  L. 


PLATE  Lll. 


PLATE  LIU. 


PLATE  LIV. 


PLATE  LV. 


PLATE  LVI. 


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